Re: FN-FORUM: Non Roman Alphatetic characters

date posted 2nd August 2005 12:19

On 2 Aug 2005 11:40:32 -0000, PAMELA WHITTAKER [EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:
>=20
> I need to do a quote later today when I get the full details but I ne=
ed
> to know how you store Non Roman Alphabetetic characters in a database.
> Apparently the site is to be in 7different languages. I don't know what t=
ype
> of database yet but they need to know if it is possible first. I am sure =
it
> must be but I don't know how.
>=20

Provided the DBMS, the database driver and programming language all
support Unicode, it is possible. It's probably possible without
Unicode support as well, but it would be much more painful and require
lots of workarounds.

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